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Ada Lovelace Research Computing Cluster

Davidson College maintains a small fleet of high performance computing and virtual computing systems, along with supporting infrastructure, that are reserved for academic purposes. Funded through various grants, start-up funds, and capital budget requests, these systems support Davidson College's academic mission by:

  • Enabling faculty research and furthering the scope of undergraduate research experiences.

  • Improving student educational outcomes by enabling the use of advanced computing infrastructure for instruction, such as JupyterHub and Galaxy Services.

  • Serving as trusted infrastructure that supports and enables publicly funded faculty and student activities.

These systems are divided into departmental groups, but they are managed, run, and wholly owned by Davidson College. Davidson College's department of Technology and Innovation is tasked with operating and supporting these machines in a manner that enables collaboration and technical compatibility. In furtherance of this goal, these groups of machines are all configured to operate together as the Ada Lovelace Research Computing Cluster.

The Ada Lovelace Research Computing Cluster is divided into three groups:

  • M&CS Group: 8 nodes, 384 logical cores, 2.0TB of available memory, high-speed interconnect.

  • ALPhA Group: 5 nodes, 216 logical cores, 1.25TB of available memory, 8 Amphere and Turing based GPUs.

  • Davidson Group: 10+1 nodes, 192+32 logical cores, 1.0TB of available memory, 14 Turing & Amphere based GPUs providing 288GB of video memory, and a high-speed storage appliance providing several terabytes of storage.

All systems use the Davidson Group high-speed storage appliance for shared storage, occupy a network segment/subnet dedicated to research computing, use a common identity provider, and are managed by the Research Computing group within T&I.

For more information see the support article.

NSF ACCESS

Through the college's participation in the Campus Champions program, each year the college receives a non-trivial allocation of resources through the NSF ACCESS program. In addition to providing portions of this allocation to instructors & researchers wishing to use NSF ACCESS resources, we have the ability to expedite applications for independent allocations.